Stonewall Jackson House

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Stonewall Jackson House

| nrhp_type = cp

| nocat = yes

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = June 18, 2009{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=19 March 2013}}

| designated_other1_number = 117-0009

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Stonewall Jackson House.jpg

| caption = Stonewall Jackson House, Lexington

| location = 8 E. Washington St., Lexington, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|37|47|5|N|79|26|29|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = {{Start date|1800}}

| added = April 24, 1973

| area = {{convert|9.9|acre}}

| refnum = 73002215{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

The Stonewall Jackson House, located at 8 East Washington Street in the Historic District of Lexington, Virginia, was the residence of Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from 1858 to 1861.

Architecture

The house is a two-story, four-bay, brick dwelling with a large, stone rear addition. It has a side-gable roof and interior end chimneys.{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lexington/117-0009_Jackson,Stonewall,House_1973_Final_Nomination.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Stonewall Jackson House|author=Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff |date=August 1972|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lexington/117-0009_Graham-Jackson_House_photo.htm Accompanying photo]

The house was constructed in 1800, by Cornelius Dorman. Dr. Archibald Graham purchased the house and significantly expanded it in 1845 by adding a stone addition on the rear and remodeling the front and interior to accommodate his medical practice. Dr. Graham sold the house to then-Major Thomas Jackson, a professor at the nearby Virginia Military Institute, on November 4, 1858, for $3000.James I. Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, p.187 It is the only house Jackson ever owned. He lived in the brick and stone house with his second wife, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.

It housed Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital from 1907 until 1954; when it was converted to a museum. In 1979 the house was carefully restored to its appearance at the time of the Jacksons' occupancy.[http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/hiway_markers/marker.cfm?mid=2288 Virginia Department of Historical Resources, Historical Marker Q-11A] The house and garden are owned and operated as a historic house museum by the Virginia Military Institute from April through December.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.